MICHAEL REDHILL

Returning from an exhibition of his photographs, J G Hallam's ship is lost in a violent storm on Lake Ontario - and the strongbox holding the photographs is lost. A century and a half later, Professor David Hollis speculates that this important historical record lies in the landfill where the city's new Union Arena is to be built.

Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller PrizeJean Mason has a doppelganger.Shes never seen her, but others* swear they have.*others | noun. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants - the regulars of Bellevue Square.Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesnt rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist theyve seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Curiosity grows to obsession and soon Jeans concerns shift from the identity of the woman, to her very own.Funny, dark and surprising, Bellevue Square takes readers down the existentialist rabbit hole and asks the question: what happens when the sense youve made of things stops making sense?

In the last jittery years of the eighteenth century, England is hungry for marvels. In rides Doctor Gustavus Katterfelto, a celebrity conjurer who once performed for Kings and now lives by his wits, with his battered stage gear and his black cat Cleo.He is joined by Roger Gossage, a young Moroccan Jew stranded in Britain. When a river accident leaves Katterfelto injured and Roger combing the Severn for lost property, he finds a dented silver horn, cold as a grave coin. When breathed into, it answers with a womans voice - she speaks of far-off cities, strange machines and in riddles, and soon "the Oracle of Clevelode" is the sensation of the Midlands. Crowds pack Duvernets theatre and fields at dusk. Doom-preachers chant her phrases. Rival magicians and zealots circle. But then a shadowy Constable of the Night sets a trap.As hysteria rises, Roger begins to suspect the horn is not a trick at all. In Nottingham a scientific committee is formed to test the oracle. What begins as theatre becomes obsession, and ends in a public trial for "pretending to sorcery", with Roger fighting to save Katterfelto and the voice inside the horn.Told as a breathless true account, The Trial of Katterfelto is a darkly comic historical fever dream about spectacle, belief, and the price of hearing the future.